Russia plane crash: Dozens killed in Rostov-on-Don
- 19 March 2016
- Europe
A passenger jet has crashed in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, killing all 55 passengers and seven crew on board, officials say.
The FlyDubai Boeing 737-800, coming from Dubai, missed the runway as it attempted to land at 03:50 local time (00:50 GMT) on Saturday.
It is not clear what caused the crash but poor visibility and high winds are being considered as a factor.
CCTV footage showed an explosion and a huge flash after the plane crashed.
"The aircraft hit the ground and broke into pieces," the Investigative Committee of Russia said on its website.
Reports say the plane abandoned its initial attempt to land and circled for two hours before crashing at the second attempt.
Kimberley Motley: From beauty pageants to Afghanistan' s only foreign lawyer
Geoffrey Macnab meets the American whose unique career change is the subject of a new film
When the US lawyer Kimberley Motley first arrived to work in Afghanistan in 2008, she admitted she had come for the money, “like half the people here”. She had student loans to pay off and a family back in America to support.
Eight years later, the former Wisconsin beauty queen is the only foreigner with a licence to litigate in Afghanistan’s courts, and her work is the subject of a new documentary, Motley’s Law.
Her clients range from imprisoned Afghan women in Kabul’s Badam Bagh prison to foreign security contractors, as well as kidnap and rape victims. She also offers free legal advice to children in juvenile detention centres.
Coming clean with Germany's dark past in Namibia
Germany and Namibia are continuing their dialogue about the genocide German troops committed in the former colony in the early 1900s. Germany's parliament also debated about the issue on Thursday.
Namibia's ambassador Andreas Guibeb gets a look at the remnants of Germany's gruesome past every day - he just needs to go to work. The Namibian embassy in Berlin is based at the so-called "Goldstein house." A Jewish businessman built the villa in 1923. Germany's Nazi government expropriated him in 1940. He was deported to a concentration camp.
Another dark chapter of German history is also all too familiar to the ambassador.
Between 1904 and 1908, German soldiers massacred more than 70,000 Herero and about half of the Nama population in what was then the colony of German South-West Africa. German South-West Africa is now Namibia.
For centuries, Germany's government was hesitant to call the massacres a genocide. To date, it has not apologized for the killings.
Urdu writers asked to declare: My book not against the govt, nation
The form, received by several Urdu writers and editors over the past few months, also asks authors to provide signatures of two witnesses.
Written by Dipti Nagpaul | Mumbai | Updated: March 19, 2016 12:59 pm
The National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL), which operates under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, has introduced a form which requires authors of books NCPUL acquires annually to declare that the content will not be against the government or the country.
The form, received by several Urdu writers and editors over the past few months, also asks authors to provide signatures of two witnesses. Originally circulated in Urdu, the form, accessed by The Indian Express, reads: “I son/daughter of confirm that my book/magazine titled which has been approved for bulk purchase by NCPUL’s monetary assistance scheme does not contain anything against the policies of the government of India or the interest of the nation, does not cause disharmony of any sort between different classes of the country, and is not monetarily supported by any government or non-government institution.”
Getting out of ISIS: American among the few to escape
A DIFFERENT VIEW
An American man has recounted how he joined ISIS and then escaped after becoming disillusioned. Stories like his are becoming more common.
When Mohamed Khweis realized that life in the Islamic State was “really, really bad,” he said he “needed to escape.”
It was a decision not made lightly. The penalty for those caught attempting to escape can be execution. But as an estimated 20,000 foreigners flock to the Islamic State, a trickle are managing to get back out.
Mr. Khweis, a United States citizen from Alexandria, Va., surrendered to Kurdish forces after spending a month in Mosul, the Iraqi city occupied by the Islamic State. He fled, he told a Kurdish television station, because "I didn't agree with their ideology."
Brazil Is Engulfed by Ruling Class Corruption — and a Dangerous Subversion of Democracy
THE MULTIPLE, REMARKABLEcrises subsuming Brazil are now garnering substantial Western media attention. That’s understandable given that Brazil is the world’s fifth most populous country and eighth-largest economy; its second-largest city, Rio de Janeiro, is the host of this year’s Summer Olympics. But much of thisWestern media coverage mimics the propaganda coming from Brazil’s homogenized, oligarch-owned, anti-democracy media outlets and, as such, is misleading, inaccurate, and incomplete, particularly when coming from those with little familiarity with the country (there are numerous Brazil-based Western reporters doing outstanding work).
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